through listening to the fantastical, comical
and zoological adventures
of Aurora Halle McPhee,
read by Pippa Rathborne
The audiobook of Barbara Metzger’s
Regency romantic comedy
A Worthy Wife,
read by Pippa Rathborne,
is now on sale on Audible, Amazon and iTunes
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Portrait of a Lady in Turkish Fancy Dress by Greuze, c. 1790.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (Image: Wikipedia)
The Regency created its own romantically sexy myth long before it was appropriated by later generations.
“John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield,
already a career diplomat at the age of seventeen, a pillar of the Establishment
trying desperately to look like poet, libertarian political writer
and social outcast Lord Byron,
painted at full Romantic throttle by Thomas Lawrence, 1819.
National Portrait Gallery. (Image: Wikipedia)”
Extract from THE ENDURING APPEAL OF REGENCY ROMANCE
by Pippa Rathborne
Pippa Rathborne 